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Get FREE mycitizenM+ membership, worth £108, for a year

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If you have any level of elite status in any airline or hotel loyalty programme, then citizenM hotels would like to offer you a FREE FULL YEAR of their mycitizenM+ programme! See here.

mycitizenM+ is the paid-for upgrade to the mycitizenM loyalty programme. The standard price is £9 a month in the UK, which gets you some genuinely useful benefits which we will look at below.

Get FREE mycitizenM+ membership, worth £108

Get a FREE year of mycitizenM+ membership, worth £108

For a limited period (we don’t know how long), citizenM is offering a FREE 12 month mycitizenM+ membership, which would usually cost you £108.

The only requirement is that you hold some sort of elite status with an airline or hotel group.

The benefits of mycitizenM+ are:

  • 15% off room rates
  • guaranteed room availability (48 hours notice required)
  • free late check out & a premium view room
  • 10% off food and drink, excluding breakfast
  • early access to discounts and deals

Late check-out would usually cost you £29 as a non mycitizenM+ member. Your guaranteed late check out is until 2pm, so if you have a late flight back, or are on a weekend break, you can have a leisurely morning at the hotel without the pressure of checking out before noon.

Where are citizenM hotels?

The chain is growing, and now has 36 hotels in 20 cities across Europe, USA and Asia offering its distinctive ‘affordable luxury’ take on the capsule hotel.

There are 19 citizenM hotels in Europe, in London, Glasgow, Paris, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Copenhagen, Zurich and Geneva. The newest addition is in an excellent location in the historic Jewish quarter of Rome.

Get FREE mycitizenM+ membership, worth £108

The USA has 15 citizenM hotels, in New York, Washington DC, Boston, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami and Austin.

In Asia, the hotels are in Taipei and Kuala Lumpur.

We reviewed a couple of the London properties in 2022. Read what Sinead had to say about her stay at the citizenM Shoreditch hotel and Rhys’s review of the citizenM London Victoria Station hotel to find out more about what the hotels are like.

How do you get your free mycitizenM+ membership?

The status match is being administered by a third party, Loyalty Status Co.

You can apply for mycitizenM+ status here. (Make sure you sign up for the free mycitizenM loyalty programme first, which you can do on the from the same page). Once approved, you will receive a discount code to redeem your one year free membership here.

You will need to provide proof of your frequent flyer or hotel programme status (for example a photo of your card) during your application, and you may be required to provide proof of identity. Any level of status above the bottom rung, with any airline or hotel programme, is acceptable. This shouldn’t be a problem for you as a HfP reader.

You can apply for your FREE mycitizenM+ status here.

Comments (28)

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  • Ivy says:

    “This shouldn’t be a problem for you as a HfP reader.”
    Some of us collect points with credit card spend and only fly redemptions! No status here.. hope I’m still welcome!

  • Ian says:

    Great if you can get it free for a year through a status match. The benefits are strikingly similar to the Radisson Rewards Scheme reviewed on HfP over the weekend, but of course they’re free anyway after a couple of nights.

  • mkcol says:

    This hasn’t come through on email today.

  • Mike says:

    If you are already a paid member, can you cancel and do this?

  • ANDREW says:

    Tried to do this and have been blocked by Status Match.com
    Anyone else finding this or is this just a nother time wasting exercise…

    • Hilda M says:

      Blocked ? Do you mean refused ? I have just applied and told “being reviewed”

  • PeterK says:

    You have to give credit card info for future year membership and then presumably cancel at the end of year 1?

    • Martyn Ford says:

      I didn’t need to

    • Super Secret Stuff says:

      This was my suspicion so I’m not doing it, I don’t even know if I’ll use it let alone remember to cancel it

    • elguiri says:

      Mine is asking for the same. Was going to be a no brainer just in case, but now not going to bother.

  • Just Nick says:

    Do I have to create a status match account as well as the Citizen M one.

  • SammyJ says:

    Anyone aware of any chains that are offering status of any kind for someone starting out from scratch? I’m aware of the various options through credit cards but wondered if there was any free or very cheap starter offer available. A friend would like to do this (and the Dufry offer) but has zero as almost all their travel is with Jet2 or Tui!

    • Mark says:

      Not aware of anything that an airline or hotel chain would just give anyone, other than the base level status that doesn’t count. The aim is to attract customers who can demonstrate a level of commitment to brands that they can tap into, ironically even if (some of) the match offers themselves are designed to encourage people to be disloyal to the brands they’ve earned status with.

      I’m not even aware of any free UK credit card options these days that will get you low level status anywhere, since the free IHG card was withdrawn.

      Ultimately you have to invest in something to get worthwhile status – either via a level of spend commitment to a brand or via a paid card such as Amex Platinum. Once you have it, options may open up to maximise the value through these kind of match deals, but your friend would have to weigh up whether the likely return is worth the investment to them. For the kind of things we’re specifically talking about here (10% discount on duty free purchases and some potential discounts/upgrades/late checkouts on a single hotel brand) it may well not be. I don’t know whether the mycitizenM+ benefits are only available on direct bookings, but if they are you’re giving up benefits available from booking through the likes of hotels.com by doing so anyway.

      • SammyJ says:

        Thanks, just wondered if there was anything around. I remember getting something with GHA by subscribing to a travel magazine a couple of years ago for £20-odds, and there have been various glitches or promos over the years. I’ve just added my Red by Dufry card to her Apple Pay instead, and for the couple of times she’ll stay in a CitizenM hotel it’s probably not worth bothering about.

    • Revs says:

      The cheapest/easiest non-credit card options are probably the various Accor cards but tbh you might as well just pay for CitizenM membership.

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